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MY FUTURE LIES
Genre : Alternate Rock
Label : Independent

BIOGRAPHY

In the past couple of years, Sydney rock trio MY FUTURE LIES has firmly established
itself as one of Australia’s most popular unsigned bands.

With over a million MySpace plays to their credit, plus a brilliant debut album,
several singles, plus two self-funded live DVDs, MY FUTURE LIES is the epitome of
what it means to be a highly successful, truly independent band in this modern
music age.

One of the hardest working young outfits in the country, MY FUTURE LIES have
performed hundreds of live shows right around Australia, forging an ever-growing
loyal fanbase in every port of call.

The band’s MySpace success has also seen the trio’s popularity begin to be
replicated in Europe, even though they’ve yet to set foot on the Continent.
Incredibly, MY FUTURE LIES have sold almost as many records in Europe as they have
here at home.

Although the earliest incarnation of MY FUTURE LIES was playing shows together as
early as 2006 under the banner of Acid Eyeliner, it’s only been in the past year that
the band has solidified its line-up and only in 2008 that the trio adopted its new
name.

The name-change coincided with the release of MY FUTURE LIES’ self-titled, selfproduced,
self-funded debut album. Since then, on the back of the debut album’s
success, the trio has toured more intensely than ever, travelling and playing as far
and wide as Adelaide, Rockhampton, Bell’s Beach outside Melbourne and Uluru in
Alice Springs.

In 2009 the group released the single, ‘Just One Chance’, which marked a major step
up in sound and commerciability. Released as a four-track EP, “Just One Chance”
presented melody, energy and exhibited the group’s readiness to step up and be
embraced by the mainstream.

There hasn’t been much time to rest since releasing ‘Just One Chance’ – 2009 saw
the group shoot a video for the single; they toured WA with Rock The Schools Tour
and appeared in episode 8 of The Apprentice. The band’s schedule has not slowed
down in 2010; January saw the boys perform in front of a 15,000 strong audience at
the closing ceremony of the Australian Scout Jamboree and in March they received
the Musicoz People’s Choice Award.

The driving force behind MY FUTURE LIES is the band’s frontman, guitarist and
lyricist, Lukey Lukess and with professional management in place, MY FUTURE LIES is
now preparing for the launch of their fan-funded sophmore album, ‘Chasing the
Moon’, which showcases the maturity of the band and their new direction. “Songs
such as a 'Rocket Fuel' and 'Chasing the Moon' state our move away from the more
pop punk influence into a much deeper rock genre,” says frontman Lukey Lukess.
‘Chasing the Moon’ is a huge step forward for the band and features a 4-track
collaboration with celebrated composer and musical director, Chong Lim (“Dancing
with the Stars) “I have really enjoyed working with MFL. They have written some
great songs together with some excellent performances. This is a very exciting album
and I am happy to have made a little contribution to their album”, said Lim. The
album was recorded and mixed at Electric Sun studios, Lim’s strings arrangement
was recorded at Studios 301.

It’s been four years and a lot has changed – In January 2006 Lukey’s party band
decided to include a couple of originals in its set during a show at the legendary Twin
Towns Services Club in Tweed Heads. The reaction was nothing short of phenomenal
and career-changing.

“We had 400 or 500 kids, a really holiday crowd in there, and they really enjoyed the
original stuff,” Lukey recalls. “It wasn’t until we got back to Sydney after that first
show that we suddenly had 500 hits on MySpace and friends were adding us. So
overnight, from that one show, from 400 kids seeing us, we got home and there was
500 hits on our site, and then there was 1000, all spreading the word from that
show. There were people who had commuted from Sydney, so suddenly we had
people saying, ‘When are you going to play in Sydney?’ So the ball started rolling
really quickly after that.”

The band immediately recorded those two original songs in a home studio, and one
of those first two songs, the cheekily titled “Penny Lane”, was immediately picked up
by Nova in Sydney as part of the radio station’s unsigned campaign. It led to the
release of the band’s first EP, which led to the video of “Penny Lane” getting national
plays on TV, and another massive spike in hits on the band’s website. They ended up
performing an extraordinary 126 shows in that first year alone.

The following year, 2007, saw the ball keep rolling in a big way. Highlights included
regular appearances on MTV, as well as a massive support slot on The Veronicas’
show at the Hodern Pavilion in Sydney. (The band has since shared bills with the likes
of The Living End, MCFLY, Dragon, Choir Boys and Mental As Anything.) Towards the
end of the year, the band released a new single, “Kissing In The Driveway”, which
went on to top Triple J’s Unearthed Charts and remains one of MY FUTURE LIES’
most popular songs to this day.

2008 saw the name change, the release of their debut album, a second live DVD,
more singles and many more live shows. By the end of the year, the performance
count had ticked over 350.

Since then, MY FUTURE LIES’ MySpace page has gone ballistic, with over 500,000 hits
in that past year alone. Lukey Lukess puts his band’s success so far down to a few
simple things: great musicianship, hard work and the simple truthfulness in his songs
which have connected with so many people.

“The thing I try to do most in my music is to be really honest,” Lukey says. “The lyrics
are simple but convey the message really well, which is usually a message about
love.“

“I am not at all interested in being the latest fad,” the singer says. “I want our gigs to
be places where people come because they really love our songs".

“We want to make music. We want to make another five or six records in the next
six or seven years, and hopefully more after that. It’s a long-term thing for us.”